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Security Update: glibc

Pat acted fast on fixing and updating glibc that is vulnerable to GHOST bug (known as CVE-2015-0235). He updated all glibc in supported Slackware releases: 13.0 up to 14.1. Slackware-current is not affected since it already uses glibc-2.20 which is not vulnerable, but he took this chance to update the timezone to the latest information (tzcode2014j and tzdata2014) and rebuilt all glibc packages.

He also update mozilla-firefox to the latest version 35.0.1 and also patch to 2.7.2

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Python 3.6.0 has been pushed to master and 14.2 branch in SBo repository in the last public update. There are a lot of new features and changes included in this major release. Some changes may broke other packages depending on Python 3. If you find any broken packages due to Python 3.6.0 changes, let us know by posting in LQ or via our mailing list.

Currently there are 64 packages that list Python 3 as hard dependency:

NVidia has released an updated legacy drivers to support X.Org 1.19 with ABI 23. It has been mentioned in the UNIX drivers, but you can directly find the drivers from the links below:NVidia 304.134 (x86, x86_64)NVidia 340.101 (x86, x86_64)
I have tested the 304.134 driver and it's working great here. I can finally remove x from my /etc/slackpkg/blacklist file since it's a showstopper for me.
Aside from legacy driver, NVidia has also released their latest driver 375.26 (x86, x86_64), which brings support for newer cards and also many new features (including X.Org 1.19 with ABI 23 support).

Samba: Upgraded to 4.4.8 for Slackware 14.2 and 4.5.3 for currentPython: Upgraded to 2.7.13 for Slackware 14.0 and newerThunderbird: Upgraded to 45.6.0 for Slackware 14.1 and newerSeamonkey: Upgraded to 2.46 for Slackware 14.1 and newerlibpng: Upgraded to 1.2.57 for Slackware 13.0, 1.4.20 for Slackware 13.1 up to 14.1, 1.6.27 for Slackware 14.2 and current
More updates on current includes: Nano: Upgraded to 2.7.3btrfs-progs: Upgraded to 4.9hplip: Upgraded to 3.16.11tmux: Upgraded to 2.3elfutils: Upgraded to 0.168openvpn: Upgraded to 2.4.0libXpm: Upgraded to 3.5.12libdrm: Upgraded to 2.4.74mesa: Upgraded to 13.0.2xf86-video-dummy: Upgraded to 0.3.8xf86-video-geode: Upgraded to 2.11.19xf86-video-git: Upgraded to latest git (20161117)xfce4-panel, xfce4-settings, xfconf: Upgraded to 4.12.1